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Man of the Year?

We now have a frontrunner for worst movie of the year. See here.

A southern accent

Go here to take a neat little test that measures from where in the country you're from based on your speech.

Even though I'm an Ohio native, I scored 74% Southerner for 3 reasons:

a) I'm from the part of Ohio south of I-70 and the National Road, Old U.S. 40, which has as much in common with Dixie as it does the Midwest.

b) My father was born in eastern Kentucky, along with three of my grandparents, and my maternal grandfather is from east Tennessee. I also spent summers in Kentucky as a kid.

c) I consciously affect a southern manner of speech, partly because I'm proud of my Scots-Irish Appalachian heritage and partly just to sound like Clint Eastwood in "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

Van Morrison's "Summertime in England"

Bluegrass week in Nashville

Another great week with the International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville, even though some baby-boomer liberals tried their best to spoil it. Read my Examiner column on it here.

Response to a Muslim reader

Here is my Sept. 29 Baltimore Examiner column, which includes my take on the Pope's recent comme nts and my response to a Muslim-American reader after he questioned my use of the term "Islamic fascists."

Your last chance at happiness

Here's my Sept. 22 Baltimore Examiner column on the book Stumbling on Happiness and why watching Zach Braff movies depresses me.

But he is going to make a new Fletch movie. That one might not make me sad.

9/11 Anniversary

My Sept. 15 Baltimore Examiner column on Bill Clinton and the 9/11 anniversary is here.